The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-05-19
FACT AND FANCY.

Swans eggs on toast" Is one OF the latest
dish us that have found favor among the epic
dreams OF Albany, n. Y.
Not one In twelve New York city lads who
presented themselves TO undergo the physical
examination Us preliminary to competition for
admission to a cadetship at the Naval acade'
my passed
Steam which collected around one hundred
tin driving-cans in a dyelng, printing and
bleaching establishment at Bronxdale n. Y,
caused an explosion which shook the country
for three miles
In San Francisco, Cal, the other day. q
school teacher compelled her scholars to strip
10 skin to find who had stolen little girls
dress pin. The next day the lost article was
found In the school-yard.
A great school for brewers is about TO be es-
lablshed in the old university town OF Donal,
France. II is calculated that in this way
Donal will supply France with brewers, whose
beer will drive the German beverage complete
ly out OF the field.
The Sans Souc hotel at Ballston, n. v,
which Mt the time OF its erection was the
largest hostelry in the United States, has been
sold to New York library. 1t has numbered
among its guests such men as Webster, Clay,
Douglas, and Calhoun.
A little Indian boy, whose problem in arith'
metic TO work out was "Divide 1000 by o."
worked away very patiently until the slate was
nearly covered with 9's and over, then, look
lug up to his teacher in tones OF great perplex'
ity, said: "Mss Blank, ! can not stop"
In Rondout n. Y, there is restaurant that
displays printed cards which conveys to Gus
toners information OF what may be obtained
there. One Of the signs reads as follows:
Lamb chopses;' another, "oyster stewes;' an
other, ''all kindses of pises;n another, "oystcr
fryses," etc A man walked into the place,
and, after looking at the signs, blandly asked
the clerk for ''pieceses of peses."
One OF the curious features Of flower garden
ing in Augusta Me-, on the 18th Of April was
bed of crocuses dug out from under the
snow at depth Of more than foot and half.
The crocuses were found 10 have made
growth OF some three inches up into the snow.
And there 1t is-a circular bed full Of crocus'
es all ready to bloom, with wall OF snow Tor
rods about 1t, and nearly two feet high.
The San Francisco Bulletin fears that in the
distant future the name San Francisco will be
worn down to the barbarous combination
"Frisco.n "We have inherited from Spain"
IL saws, ''sonorous names TO which we should
adhere or substitute their meanings In our
own tongue. The roll Of the counties OF
California, when called of, is music In itself,
marred alone by one or two harsher and more
sibant tones which we have introduced into
it.h
The city marshal of Portsmouth, n. H.,
started for the train one day recently and had
to run for It, Half hundred persons seeing
the officer run supposed he was after crlmi'
nal, and started in 10 help him, and by the
time the perspring marshal had reached the
depot two or three hundred men and boys
were close at his heels. There were great
many persons in that crowd who felt like hav-
ing themselves kicked when the marshal told
them what he was running for.
In lecture before a New York medical so.
ciety, DR.. George T. Jackson, OF Boston, said
one cause of badness was great intellectuali
ty, and in an illustration said that % per cent.
OF the men to be seen at the operas and The
churches IN Boston are bald, while moi
more than twenty-five per cent Of those
who visit the cheap museu ms are thus
afflicted. Another cause, he thought, is still
hats, which compress the temporal arteries
and render the circulation of the blood slug
glsh.
Franklin d. Smith, ~ Portland, Oregon, a
negro who served as soldier during the war;
has been blackbaled by the Grand Army men
out there, and, in a letter of remonstrance,
says: ~ fought side by side with white men
then, sat side by side with them around our
camp.ilres then, and color was not thought Of
Our country was our thought | was white
enough then to offer my life for the salvation
of ms country and am not man enough TO
belong to Garfield post, No. 3, Grand Army OF
the Republic"
Some time ago resident OF Amesbury,
Conn, sent to friend In Australia typical
Yankee yacht, which has won the honor Of
being the Mayfower OF southern waters. In
an OCEAN race OF ninety miles In March the
sloop vanqulshed all the Britishers and won
the prize of eco, none Of her four rivals being
able to finish the course In the face Of tn,
gale and heavy sea which prevailed. The
Sydney newspapers are full Of praises of the
speed and stanchness OF the Yankee boat aud
the skill OF her owner.
A society man in Buffalo, n. Y, tells how
near he came being "pulled' recently for
II was walking along absent
mindedly," he says, "when / happened 10 no.
tice the car that had been waiting for had
passed me. threw up my hand suddenly tc
motion to the conductor to stop, and got my
fingers tangled in the watchchan of a gen
teman who came up. suppose he thought
was trying to rob him, for he made grab at
rue and ran after me half the way to the car